If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.